Using data from the Broxtowe Council’s own website, I’ve mapped the various entries onto a map visualisation, with clickable markers identifying whether it’s an open space, car park, development site, etc. https://tomgeraghty.co.uk/enhanced_combined_map-broxtowe.html The post Mapping Broxtowe's open spaces first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
I’ve been playing recently with a “supercharged 301” app, which allows you to create a 301 redirect (like bit.ly and similar), but crucially has a few key features: The idea is that you can send a link to someone, and even if someone is snooping on their messages, as long as they do it after … Continue reading "Send secure links" The post Send secure links first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
This article addresses the challenges that the health system in Kathmandu faces as a result of rapid urbanisation, and follows with some recommendations for improving the resilience of the Kathmandu health system. Throughout this essay, “Kathmandu” refers to the Kathmandu Valley, including the municipalities of Kathmandu, Lalitpur, Bhaktapur, Kirtipur and Madhyapur Thimi. Urbanisation … Continue reading "Urbanisation in a Low-Income Country: A Case Study of Health System Challenge...| Tom Geraghty
Submitted as part of coursework in my Master’s degree in Global Public Health Evaluating Quantitative Research in Global Health: Strengths, Weaknesses, and Opportunities for Improvement. Quantitative research is the collection and analysis of primarily numerical data in order to identify patterns, test hypotheses, and aspires to establish generalisable principles in an objective manner (Bryman, 2016). … Continue reading "Evaluating Quantitative Research in Global Health: Strengths, Weakne...| Tom Geraghty
The 2023 “Accelerate State of DevOps Report” has provided several substantial insights. Here are the four main takeaways, delved into with more detail: Burnout and the Underrepresented: The report has identified a worrying link: there’s a correlation between the quality of documentation work and increased burnout, especially among those who identify as underrepresented. The data … Continue reading "The 2023 State of Devops Report – Summary" The post The 2023 State of Devops Report -...| Tom Geraghty
Having spent some time in Nepal a year or so after the earthquake, and knowing people there who were, and still are, impacted by the disaster, I’ve created a disaster management cycle for an earthquake in Nepal. As Kahn (2008) states, “disaster occurs only when hazards and vulnerability meet“, and that vulnerability can be broken … Continue reading "Disaster Cycle for an Earthquake in Nepal:" The post Disaster Cycle for an Earthquake in Nepal: first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
The Fukoshima “triple disaster” in 2011 was caused by an earthquake that triggered a tsunami, which then hit nuclear power stations situated on the East Coast of Japan. This resulted in large quantities of radioactivity released into the natural environment, and more than 300,000 residents evacuated as well as a cleanup operation that may take … Continue reading "Reflections on the Antecedents to the Fukushima Disaster in 2011" The post Reflections on the Antecedents to the Fukushima Di...| Tom Geraghty
Drawing on the lecture contents, share one example of a real-world disaster caused by people’s under- or unpreparedness. Consider both behavioural and systemic/structural causes for under or unpreparedness. On april 26, 1986, the RBMK-1000 reactor at Chernobyl suffered a series of catastrophic failures that resulted in core meltdown. The RBMK type of reactor was inherently … Continue reading "Preparedness and Disaster" The post Preparedness and Disaster first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
Alexander (2013, p.2714) argues “resilience has a bright future ahead of it as an explanatory concept in various allied fields that deal with environmental extremes. However, its success in this respect will depend on not overworking it or expecting that it can provide more insight and greater modeling capacity than it is capable of furnishing.” … Continue reading "Resilience and Disaster Response and Recovery" The post Resilience and Disaster Response and Recovery first appeared on Tom...| Tom Geraghty
In December 2022 I requested a copy of the NUH Trust’s risk assessment and associated decision making evidence showing how the restriction to women’s individual rights and the benefits to home birth, in terms of clinical outcomes, was weighed up against other safety concerns to come to a decision not to provide a full time home … Continue reading "Nottingham University Hospitals Maternity Services – Home Birth Risk Assessment" The post Nottingham University Hospitals Maternity Servic...| Tom Geraghty
Or is it Leadership *and* Management? I created this graphic in 2019 as part of a presentation on High Performing Teams for the IT Leaders Conference. Inspired by Grace Hopper’s “You manage things, you lead people” quote, I wanted to make the point that great leadership also requires great management skills. You can be … Continue reading "Leadership vs Management" The post Leadership vs Management first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
TL;DR: What is platform engineering? Isn’t that just old Dev vs Ops thinking? What is the Platform Operating Model? A platform operating model is: “a business model that creates value by facilitating exchanges between two or more interdependent groups, usually consumers and producers.” Applying DevOps thinking, we can adopt that model internally to organisations, by … Continue reading "Platform Engineering and the Platform Operating Model" The post Platform Engineering and the Platf...| Tom Geraghty
This year, the Google / DORA State of DevOps Report dived deeper into information security. In 2021, the report highlight the importance of Secure Software Supply Chains – building in security throughout the software development cycle and supply chain. The research leveraged the Supply Chain Levels for Secure Artifacts (SLSA) framework in conjunction with NIST’s Secure Software Development … Continue reading "The State of DevOps Report 2022" The post The State of DevOps Report 2022...| Tom Geraghty
Organisations are complex sociotechnical systems. And all organisations exist in various states of dysfunction all the time. Some parts of the organisation may briefly reach a “functional” state where everything works effectively, and everyone knows what is happening. But those states don’t exist for long. We can think of this as the organisational entropic force … Continue reading "There is no such thing as a “functional organisation”." The post There is no such thing as a "funct...| Tom Geraghty
There’s a lot of information (and misinformation) on the concept of “Platform as a Product” in respect to current thinking in DevOps and organisational dynamics, and this is where I’m gathering my thoughts on that. The core premise of “Platform as a Product” is to make explicit the need for a platform (low variability) to exist … Continue reading "Platform as a Product" The post Platform as a Product first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
Hybrid work is upon us. Hybridisation in biological systems often creates a phenomena known as heterosis (also known as “hybrid vigour”): where the combining of two distinct varieties or genotypes results in a far stronger, more vigorous offspring, even though the resulting hybrid is usually sterile. Many commercial crop varieties are based on this principle, … Continue reading "Hybridisation and the heterosis of hybrid work." The post Hybridisation and the heterosis of hybrid work. f...| Tom Geraghty
A gap between strategy and delivery – we know what we want to do, and we have the people and tools to do it, but we can’t seem to do it. We end up building something different to what we intended in the strategy. This may be a sign of weak strategy, or it may be … Continue reading "Digital Transformation and Organisational Dysfunctions" The post Digital Transformation and Organisational Dysfunctions first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
The 2 state of DevOps reports each year aggregate the current state of technology organisations globally in respect to our collective transformation towards delivering value faster and more reliably. Or as Jonathan Smart puts it, “Sooner. Safer, Happier”. The DevOps shift has been in progress for over a decade now, and whilst DevOps was always … Continue reading "The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2021 – A Summary" The post The Accelerate State of DevOps Report 2021 - A Summary fir...| Tom Geraghty
(Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) It is quite clear that the UK and South Africa are in very different situations with respect to the HIV/AIDS epidemic. This is due in large part to behavioural changes in injecting drug users (IDUs) (Stimson, 1995) and adoption … Continue reading "Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS pandemics the UK and South Africa" The post Health Promotion and HIV/AIDS pandemics the UK and South Afri...| Tom Geraghty
(Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) This discussion focuses on strengthening health system service delivery and accessibility in Mexico, via the “Oportunidades” programme. The Oportunidades programme is a useful one to explore, firstly because its horizontal approach “has led to increased health service utilization” (Blas … Continue reading "Health System Service Delivery in Mexico and the Oportunidades prog...| Tom Geraghty
(Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) Social science approaches to research differ from epidemiological approaches in a number of ways. Whilst epidemiological approaches are deductive (that is, typically starting with a hypothesis to be proven or disproven) quantitative, social science methodologies may typically be inductive … Continue reading "To what extent social science is appropriate as an alternative to epidemi...| Tom Geraghty
(Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) Charles Rosenberg’s 1992 essay “What Is An Epidemic” characterises an epidemic into four Acts, and utilises Albert Camus’s 1948 novel “The Plague” to describe these Acts of “Progressive Revelation”, “Managing Randomness”, “Negotiating Public Response”, and “Subsidence and Retrospection” … Continue reading "Cultural lessons learned from Spanish Flu an...| Tom Geraghty
(Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) Introduction This study aims to understand the sexual behaviours, attitudes to risk, and levels of health literacy of men who have sex with men (MSM) in a small rural community in sub-saharan Africa, in relation to the spread of … Continue reading "Masters assignment: study to analyse the incidence of sexual behaviour between men in order to better understand the spread of HIV/AID...| Tom Geraghty
(Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) Access to safe abortion services is a neglected issue in sexual and reproductive health worldwide. In 2008, more than 70,000 women died from complications related to unsafe abortions globally, whilst unsafe abortions account for 13% of all maternal mortality … Continue reading "Rights Based Approaches to Increasing Access to Safe Abortion Services" The post Rights Based Approaches...| Tom Geraghty
Critical Review: Freckleton, I, Q.C., 2020. COVID-19: Fear, quackery, false representations and the law. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 72, p.101611. (Originally submitted as coursework towards my Masters in Global Public Health at the University of Manchester) In this paper, Ian Freckleton Q.C. argues that depictions of previous epidemics and pandemics in religious texts, … Continue reading "Critical Review: Freckleton, I, Q.C., 2020. COVID-19: Fear, quackery, false represent...| Tom Geraghty
I have been struck by the differential impact of Covid-19 on different communities. Black people in the UK are 4 times more likely to die from Covid-19 as white people, and when taking other socio-demographic factors into account, the risk of a Covid-19 related death for black people is still 1.9 times greater than white … Continue reading "Community Approaches to Health and Covid-19" The post Community Approaches to Health and Covid-19 first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
The below is a simple but extensive (though non-exhaustive and growing) list of factors to address and discover when working on organisational and digital transformations. I’ve used this list as a helpful reminder when carrying out discovery sessions with clients, and you can too! If you’d like to suggest additions or changes, please let me … Continue reading "180 Factors of Organisational and Digital Transformation" The post 180 Factors of Organisational and Digital Transformation firs...| Tom Geraghty
It’s not that easy to find all the annual state of DevOps reports, partly because they forked in 2017 between Puppet and Google/DORA. Below I’ve listed each report by year, and I’m in the process of listing all the key findings from each report. Some reports provide greater insights than others. The first report was … Continue reading "Summary of all State of DevOps Reports since 2013" The post Summary of all State of DevOps Reports since 2013 first appeared on Tom Geraghty.| Tom Geraghty
I came across an interesting looking paper this week, co-authored by a prominent leadership “thought leader”, but there’s no open access version available, which means it’s only accessible by people willing/able to pay £30 for a copy, or who work or study in an academic institution. I have a deep love of academic study, and I sincerely believe in the pursuit of knowledge without any specific agenda, a la Max Planck: “Scientific discovery and scientific knowledge have been achieved...| Tom Geraghty
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PepsiCo coined the term “SLAM” teams as a way to address teaming in large, complex organisations. SLAM teams are:| Tom Geraghty